7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-5119

Published: 29/08/2014 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find function in gconv_trans.c in GNU C Library (aka glibc) allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the CHARSET environment variable and gconv transliteration modules.

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debian debian linux 7.0

Vendor Advisories

Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator ...
Debian Bug report logs - #775572 glibc: CVE-2014-7817 CVE-2014-9402 Package: src:glibc; Maintainer for src:glibc is GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:42:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in version glibc/219 ...
Debian Bug report logs - #681888 CVE-2012-3406: glibc formatted printing vulnerabilities Package: src:glibc; Maintainer for src:glibc is GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:42:15 UTC Severity: important Tags: secur ...
Tavis Ormandy discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the transliteration module loading code in eglibc, Debian's version of the GNU C Library As a result, an attacker who can supply a crafted destination character set argument to iconv-related character conversation functions could achieve arbitrary code execution This update removes support ...
An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's internal __gconv_translit_find() function An attacker able to make an application call the iconv_open() function with a specially crafted argument could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application ...
An off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in glibc's internal __gconv_translit_find() function An attacker able to make an application call the iconv_open() function with a specially crafted argument could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that application ...

Exploits

// // Full Exploit: githubcom/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploits/raw/master/bin-sploits/34421targz (CVE-2014-5119targz) // // // --------------------------------------------------- // CVE-2014-5119 glibc __gconv_translit_find() exploit // ------------------------ taviso & scarybeasts ----- // // Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxh ...